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Flexible workplaces in Queensland Health

Annual leave

• Nurses and midwives receive five weeks paid annual leave (six weeks for shift workers).
• There is an option to purchase up to six weeks additional leave per year (subject to service delivery requirements).

Parental leave

• Fourteen weeks paid maternity leave (with half pay option)
• Adoption leave
• One weeks paid paternity leave